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For hypergraphs $F,H$, a labelled copy is an injective function $\varphi :V(F)\to V(H)$ taking every hypergraph edge of $F$ to an hypergraph edge of $H$. Specified vertex of a hypergraph classes may additionally require $\varphi (i)\in V_i$. The count is the sum, over these injective maps, of the product of the host hypergraph edge indicators. Without injectivity the same expression counts hypergraph homomorphisms. On a common host of size $n$, their counts differ by at most $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{|V(F)|}{2}\right)n^{|V(F)|-1}$: every noninjective map identifies at least one pair of abstract vertices of a hypergraph, each prescribed equality permits at most $n^{|V(F)|-1}$ maps, and the union bound completes the estimate. An induced copy additionally preserves nonedges, so its indicator product includes nonedge factors. The counting lemma for octahedrally quasirandom three-uniform hypergraphs estimates these labelled products when the requisite centered triple indicators have small box norm.

A hypergraph is linear when two distinct hypergraph edges intersect in at most one vertex of a hypergraph. Equivalently, every pair of distinct vertices of a hypergraph has hypergraph codegree at most one. This restricts local overlap without bounding the hypergraph chromatic number: the random alteration method gives linear three-uniform hypergraphs of arbitrarily large hypergraph chromatic number.

A multipartite hypergraph has a specified partition of its vertex of a hypergraph set into parts, and every hypergraph edge meets each part in at most one vertex of a hypergraph. For an $r$-uniform hypergraph with $r$ parts, an hypergraph edge chooses exactly one vertex of a hypergraph from each part; its indicator is therefore a function on the Cartesian product of those parts. A quadripartite three-uniform hypergraph instead has four possible types of hypergraph edge, according to the omitted part. A choice of one vertex of a hypergraph from each of its four parts is a three-uniform tetrahedron exactly when all four triples are hypergraph edges. Specifying the parts makes both subset density and labelled counting precise.